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Stoichita, Victor Ieronim was born on June 13, 1949 in Bucharest, Romania. Son of Sandu Stoichita and Michaela Papilian.
(Victor Stoichita challenges the received ideas about the ...)
Victor Stoichita challenges the received ideas about the linear progression of Western painting, from the Renaissance, through Mannerism to the Baroque. Eschewing questions of style, he focuses instead on the painting as a framed, transportable, and marketable object that is a specifically modern artistic medium. Arguing that panel painting, from its origins in the Early Renaissance, was a 'self-aware image', Stoichita demonstrates that the artist and his art was often the theme of the painting. He also examines the mirror effect and other 'splitting' strategies such as the mise en abîme and intertextual play. By analysing these modalities of self-reflection, Stoichita offers a new and unexpected view of a period and the art it produced once considered to have been definitively classified.
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( This intriguing book on Goya concentrates on the closin...)
This intriguing book on Goya concentrates on the closing years of the eighteenth century as a neglected milestone in his life. Goya waited until 1799 to publish his celebrated series of drawings, the Caprichos, which offered a personal vision of the "world turned upside down". Victor I. Stoichita and Anna Maria Coderch consider how themes of Revolution and Carnival (both seen as inversions of the established order) were obsessions in Spanish culture in this period, and make provocative connections between the close of the 1700s and the end of the Millennium. Particular emphasis is placed on the artist's links to the underground tradition of the grotesque, the ugly and the violent. Goya's drawings, considered as a personal and secret laboratory, are foregrounded in a study that also reinterprets his paintings and engravings in the cultural context of his time.
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( Stoichita's compelling account untangles the history of...)
Stoichita's compelling account untangles the history of one of the most enduring challenges to beset Western art - the depiction and meanings of shadows. "discriminating, inspired interrogation ... dazzling analysis"—Marina Warner, Tate Magazine "Ambitious and a pleasure to read ... a thoroughly worthwhile book."—Times Higher Education Supplement
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( In this original and lucid account of how Spanish paint...)
In this original and lucid account of how Spanish painters of the 16th and 17th centuries dealt with mystic visions in their art, and of how they attempted to "represent the unrepresentable", Victor Stoichita aims to establish a theory of visionary imagery in Western art in general, and one for the Spanish Counter-Reformation in particular. He reveals how the spirituality of the Counter-Reformation was characterized by a rediscovery of the role of the imagination in the exercise of faith. This had important consequences for painters such as Velazquez, Zurbaran and El Greco, leading to the development of ingenious solutions for visual depictions of mystical experience. This was to crystallize into an overtly meditative and didactic pictorial language. That Spanish painting is both cerebral and passionate is due to the particular historical forces which shaped it. Stoichita's account will be of crucial interest not just to scholars of Spanish art but to anyone interested in how art responds to ideological pressures.
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Stoichita, Victor Ieronim was born on June 13, 1949 in Bucharest, Romania. Son of Sandu Stoichita and Michaela Papilian.
Dottore in lettere, University Rome, 1973. Docteur de l'état és lettres, Sorbonne, Paris, 1989.
Assistant professor Fine Arts Academy, Bucharest, 1973-1982, University Munich, 1984-1991. University professor Fribourg, Switzerland, since 1991.
( In this original and lucid account of how Spanish paint...)
( Stoichita's compelling account untangles the history of...)
(Victor Stoichita challenges the received ideas about the ...)
( This intriguing book on Goya concentrates on the closin...)
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Member Carl-Justi-Vereinigung, Association Swisse des Historiens de l'Art.
Married Anna-Maria Coderch, January 16, 1982. Children: Pedro, Maria.